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SPOTLIGHT

MIDDLE EAST

FRENCH GAMBIT IN MIDDLE EAST STALLED

Since the Americans have put their foot down against any armed clash between Israel and Syria, the Israeli intelligence services and their Turkish allies have thrown themselves in recent weeks into a covert war against the Iran-backed regime of Syrian president Hafez el Assad. (...) [ 672 words ] [ €8 ]

Community watch

UNITED KINGDOM
MATCHING FINGERPRINTS IN SECONDS
	The U.S. group TRW is designing a computer system that could enable police forces in England and Wales to identify fingerprints of criminals in just a few seconds. (...) [ 325 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
SADDAM HUSSEIN REVAMPS MILITARY
	President Saddam Hussein unveiled a radical overhaul of the Iraqi army early this month on the 75th anniversary of its inception. (...) [ 323 words ] [ €5 ]

WHO'S WHO

FRANCE
BERNARD NORLAIN
	French air force general Bernard Norlain, aged 57, recently joined the French affiliate of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's Big Six accountancy and auditing firms, as vice-president in charge of corporate development. (...) [ 246 words ] [ €5 ]

IRAQ
ALI BAGDADI
	Chief of the military wing of the Iraqi Shi'ite movement Al Daawa, Ali Bagdadi is certainly the man who organized the day-light assault in Baghdad on Dec. (...) [ 229 words ] [ €5 ]

CHINA
CAO GANGCHUAN
	Deputy chief-of-staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) since 1992, lieut.-gen. Cao Gangchuan has just taken charge of the Defence Ministry's highly important Science, Technology and Industry Committee (STIC). (...) [ 295 words ] [ €5 ]

UNITED STATES
STEELE TESTS WATER FOR GORE
	Robert Steele, pioneer in the use of open sources by U.S. intelligence, has angrily protested over two decisions taken by the CIA's executive director. (...) [ 638 words ] [ €5 ]

HUNGARY
POLICE CLEAN-UP AT THE TOP
	French interior minister Jean-Louis Debré is accompanying president Jacques Chirac on an official visit to Hungary this week and intends to sign a raft of agreements with his Hungarian counterpart, Gabor Kuncze, on cooperating in the fight against illegal trafficking (waste, radio-active material), illegal immigration, drugs and organized crime. (...) [ 241 words ] [ €5 ]

QATAR
FAMILY RECONCILIATION AT CRILLON HOTEL
	After 10 days of family discussion in the luxury Crillon hotel in Paris, the emir of Qatar, sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, and his father, sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani, made their peace concerning a financial dispute that had been simmering between them since the June, 1995 coup d'etat. (...) [ 225 words ] [ €1,5 ]

FRANCE
CALL FOR COVERT INFOWAR UNIT
	Gen. Jean Pichot-Duclos, former director of the Ecole Interarmee des Langues et du Renseignement (EIREL: (...) [ 155 words ] [ €1,5 ]

IRAN
PROTECTING ISLAM'S VALUES
	Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is urging the country's intelligence agencies to double their efforts to safeguard the Islamic system from what he sees as systematic attacks by the United States. (...) [ 139 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Agenda

FRANCE
FRENCH HIGH POWER MICRO WAVE SHOW
	The BIRP company is organizing the HYPER'97 show in Paris between Jan. (...) [ 102 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
ORGANIZED CRIME AND CYBERCRIME
	Oceana Publications and the University of Florida's Center for International Financial Crime are organizing a seventh conference on money laundering, cyberpayments, corporate and bank security and international financial crime in Miami between Feb. (...) [ 159 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
GILAD-HERRING ACADEMY
	The Academy of Competitive Intelligence (ACI) is offering training courses in business intelligence in Washington between April 21-25. (...) [ 111 words ] [ €1,5 ]

Threat assessment

	UNITED STATES
	AVOIDING A NEW PEARL HARBOUR
		Chaired by Duane Andrews, a former assistant defense secretary for command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I), a group of experts chosen by the Defense Science Board has just published a long report calling for urgent measures in the field of telecommunications and computer networks. (...) [ 361 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED STATES
	CLINTON PUSHES FOR CHEMICAL BAN
		After a number of setbacks last year president Bill Clinton is determined to see Congress ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention that is to come into effect on April 29. (...) [ 341 words ] [ €5 ]

TECHNOLOGY

FRANCE/JAPAN
SMART CARD A KEY TO AUTHENTIFICATION
	Implementing legislation on data encryption has run into a lot of problems in many countries but a user's need for secure authentification on both internal corporate networks and on the Internet has encountered no such obstacles. (...) [ 410 words ] [ €5 ]

FRANCE
STRATEGIC UAV'S WAVE OF THE FUTURE
	Like their American and British counterparts, French military men are seeking over the next few years to acquire "strategic UAV's" that can operate over long ranges and days at a time. (...) [ 429 words ] [ €5 ]

SWITZERLAND
SWISS BUY ISRAELI SYSTEM
	The Swiss government has awarded a $115 million contract to ELTA Electronics Industries Ltd. (...) [ 201 words ] [ €1,5 ]

UNITED STATES
U.S. ORDERS AIRPORT BOMB DETECTOR
	To improve security at American airports the Federal Aviation Administration has at last ordered 54 CTX-5000 SP explosive detection systems that are widely recognized as among the very best in the world at analyzing and identifying explosive materials (IN 295). (...) [ 132 words ] [ €1,5 ]

SWEDEN
SECURE MODEM
	The Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson has unveiled a cryptographic modem called the V-34 HE that it claims is the first 28,800 to 33,600 bits-per-second modem to provide secure transmissions. (...) [ 90 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	U.K. BEEFS UP SECURITY
		The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Paul Condon, has confirmed his force will remain "on a high state of alert" against a possible IRA attack on the British mainland in the months leading up to Britain's forthcoming general election which will probably be held in mid-May. (...) [ 460 words ] [ €5 ]

	LEBANON
	TEHRAN UPS HEZBOLLAH'S ALLOWANCE
		Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of the Lebanese branch of Hezbollah, attended gatherings of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's leading political and military body, in Tehran in early December. (...) [ 457 words ] [ €5 ]

	UNITED KINGDOM
	NEW YEARS' BONUS FOR JERSEY POLICE
		The U.S. ambassador to Britain, William Crowe, has presented the police force in Jersey in the Channel Islands with a $1 million check from the U. (...) [ 179 words ] [ €1,5 ]

	BANGLADESH/PAKISTAN
	CRACKDOWN ON PAKISTANI AID
		Pakistan has been warned to halt its covert support of anti-Indian insurgent groups that have been operating out of Bangladesh. (...) [ 191 words ] [ €1,5 ]